Genco Gülan is a conceptual artist with an interest in new media and performance art. He studied Political Science and Art at Bogazici University then he pursued an MA degree on Media Studies at New School, New York. He got prizes from BP, New School, Lions, E.M.A.F. Nominated for the European Art prize in 2012 and got selected as a finalist. Gülan made solo shows in Istanbul, Ankara, Graz, Berlin, New York, Seoul and Zagreb. His works are presented in museums such as; Centre Pompidou, Pera, ZKM, MAM, Rio and La Triennale di Milano. He participated to festivals such as; Steirishes Herbst, Ars Electronica, Mediaterra, prog-me, Accente, Balkan Art and Istanbul Festival. His net-art pieces have been exhibited at irishmuseumofmodernart.org, rhizome.org and kanonmedia.com/ His works listed in required reading lists such as; City University, New York, Rice University and U.C. Santa Barbara. Gülan gave conferences at Yale, School of Visual Arts, Köln University and New York Institute of Technology. Genco Gülan and his art has been referred to by Newsweek, Herald Tribune, NY Arts, Art in America, Art News, Das Kunst, Beaux Arts and Idomenee. His monography edited Dr. Marcus Graf is published by Revolver Berlin the title "Conceptual Colors of genco Gulan". His book "De-Constructing the Digital Revolution" is published by LAP and both of the books are available at amazon.com/ Genco Gülan was in the Advisory Board of Balkan Biennial, Thessaloniki and International Programming Committee of ISEA Singapore. He is the founder of the Web Biennial. Currently he teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.

“All-inclusive” is the title chosen by Genco Gülan for his new solo show which is composed of different disciplines; paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and new media. Rather than a conceptual umbrella for the show, the title represents the artist’s method of creation. “All-inclusive” describes a psychological safe haven; a way of thinking. Gülan describes his method as follows:

“Whenever I start to work on an art piece, I hurry up as if I have very limited time. Everything around me may turn into muse cake. I rush into ideas as if I am in front of an open-buffet rushing with many people. I want to taste everything. After a careful research process even the simplest things may turn into something. Garbage may turn into a treasure for me. Then the junk yard becomes an open-buffet and then a feast.”

As a contemporary artist, Gülan stands out amongst his contemporaries with his wide range of ideas as well as variety of material. He uses different techniques and materials. Gülan takes both east and west as reference points as well as past and present.

Istanbul based artist Genco Gulan was selected as a finalist for the Sovereign Art Foundation’s European Art Prize in 2011. In 2015 he is given Masters award by Aegean Art of Ege Universit. Genco Gulan works and teaches at Mimar Sinan Academy and Bogazici University.

Contemporary artist Genco Gulan will show his new works at Gallery Metazori and Cesme Marina, both on the West coast of Turkey.

Genco Gülan’s new solo show; Swimming Rocks will be on exhibit at the Art Gallery of Kırmızı Ardıç Kuşu, Gallery Metazori in Çeşme, Alaçatı where he spent most of his childhood.

Swimming Rocks is not only the name of the exhibition, but also one of the significant artworks in the exhibition. Swimming stones, pumice, are a type of rocks that can float on the sea and be found in Aegean Sea, especially in Çeşme and Alaçatı inspired the artist in this process.

Gülan made a sculpture, named Swimming Rocks from these and other stones; therefore this and some other sculptural pieces will float on the sea and in the gallery. He made floating figurative, human-sized sculptures covered with stone.

Genco Gülan has also a series called as “New Landscape” in this exhibition. This series is a conceptual/electronic interpretation of landscapes as barcodes. These artworks let us ask ourselves many questions: How do the landscape pictures change in time? How different are our landscapes now? How will be landscapes in the future? Gülan juxtaposed classical landscape paintings, bacodes and produced new pieces.

Also, another surprise about this exhibition is that the artworks of the mother of Genco Gülan, Tezer Gülan and his grandmother, Saime İzmiroğlu will be also exhibited.

Last but not the least, Gülan is exhibiting a new series; Digital Ghost. The artist painted on large canvases; the non-existing images that appeared in his formatted laptop.

Conceptual artist Genco Gülan’s site-specific installation, ‘The Great Conjugation’, will be exhibited at Boğaziçi University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, Washburn Hall. After 23 years, the artist returns to the building where he completed his undergraduate studies. This time he ties the twin towers of the historical building together from inside.

The artist, Genco Gülan’s site-specific installation series continues at Boğaziçi University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building, Washburn Hall. The project which changes and transforms depending upon the location will be displayed not in a museum but this time in an academic institution. Gülan’s installation named ‘The Great Conjugation’ could be seen at Washburn Hall through May and June 2014.

Gülan used approximately 1000 ties for this installation. All of the connected ties create a route tens of meters long and the line flows through the all five floors of the building. The ties connect the twin towers of the building from the inside which was built in 1906. Gülan invites the viewers to bring their ties and add them to the installation the generate a second level of participation.

Gülan’s work of art is not descriptive, it does not involve just one explanation. Both the objects that are used and the space-time relationship between them give a range of meaning to the piece. What Gülan tries to do is to constitute new semantic connections and summon new connotations by using the association of ideas. While he is doing that he claims the role of ‘playmaker’ and tries to be almost out of the picture. Even if the method is referring to Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of relational aesthetics, the soft sculpture that came to life is more plastic and political among its contemporaries.

The ties that are used in the project have different colors, designs, brands and they were made in different countries. They were gathered from hundreds of domestic and abroad donators. The ties some of which are silk, nylon and wool conjugate and become a whole. The same ties were exhibited and greatly appreciated by viewers in The Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art and Ankara Contemporary Art Center in 2013. At the first display in Istanbul, they were attached with a crane to a skyscraper and rised 160 meters from the ground.

Genco Gülan was selected as a finalist at Sovereign Art Foundation European Art Prize in 2011. He had opened his first exhibition at White Saloon inside the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences building where he had also taken lots of courses while he was studying at the Department of Political Science and International Relations between 1987 and 1991. Gülan still gives lectures at the University he graduated from. ‘The Great Conjugation’ project is happening with the contributions of Prof Dr. Ayşe Gül Toker and the Faculty Secretary Hatıra Şenkon.

We are happy to announce that Webbiennial 14 is collecting artist worldwide to form its 12th online exhibition. Since 2002, web biennial is gathering the artists, working not only using online material and techniques but also on traditional mediums, around a theme which is selected by the curator.

“The Android Statue” of Genco Gülan will be exhibited in Antalya Archeology Museum in March for the first time. In the exhibition, also the sketches of his kinetic marble statue series, called “Robotic Statues” will be presented.

Genco Gülan gives references to archeology; even he produces new media artworks. Between the dates 12-20 March 2014, his artworks will be exhibited in Antalya Archeology Museum for the first time. His art try to predict the future of both sculpture as a discipline and humanity in general.

Conceptual artist Genco Gülan has been working on robots in the labs of different universities since the middle of 1990’s. He uses hardware and software of robots in many art projects. For example The artwork titled Robots, Football and War (RFW) of Gülan that consists physical robots, was part of a computer game “Balkan Wars” that won a prize from European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück in 1995. His play written by artificial intelligence (AI) robots was used in the project YEN! (New), presented in Pera Museum, for 16th Istanbul Theatre Festival.

The artist will give a conference called “Idea Art” at Akdeniz University Fine Arts Faculty on 13th March, 14:30 in conjunction with his solo show.